Monday, December 18, 2006

Synthesis Becomes Radicalization

The thesis of my answer to the take-home portion of my Evidence exam, as informed by my study of moral and political philosophy, my instruction in this semester's Legal Professions seminar, and my experience at the Legal Services Center:
The adversarial system is evil. The bar foisted it upon you before you had this whole 'democracy' thing sorted out, and we've kept it in place because it makes us richer and more powerful than you. If you know what's good for you, you'll start chipping away at attorney-client privilege right now.
So we'll see how that flies. The professor did seem to have a fondness for Jeremy Bentham's ranting about how awful the common law is, but that could have just been bemusement. Oh well.

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